Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-06

A. r. WEBB, of st. Louis, has been APP
pointed United States Consul at Manila,
Philippine islands.
The President has appointed William s.
Putnam. of Maine, and James B. Angel,
of Michigan, on the Fishery Commission.
1T is estimated that the public debt was
reduced during September SIC, SOC. 900.
COLONEL WIN. r. MORRISON, of Illinois,
has been allowed twelve dollars a month
pension as a Mexican war veteran.
THE twenty-first National encampment
of the G. A. r. closed ON the Both.
THIEVES got into the National Bank at
Washington, Ind, in daylight on the Both,
and got away with several hundred dol
lars.
AYoUB KHAN having failed to incite in
surrection at Herat is marching toward
Candahar.
THE steamer T. B. Sims (old D. R. Pow.
ELY, was burned at Island 40, just above
Memphis, Tenn, on the 30th, one life be-
ing lost.
MUNCHRATH, convicted of completely in
the murder of DIR. Paddock, at Sioux City,
Ia, was sentenced on the 30th to four
years in the penitentiary. The case has
been appealed.
LOCAL free trad ers met at Cleveland,
O., on the night of the Goth and issued an
invitation to the American Free-Trade
League to hold the next biennial conven-
tion in that city. The convention meets
this month and the invitation will no
doubt be accepted.
THE Michigan delegation, both of G. A.
r. veterans, as well as the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, are highly elated, as they have
cause to be, over the honor conferred upon
the State in the choice of Mrs. Emma 5.
Hampton, of Detroit, as the National presi
dent.
SECRETARY LAMAR has decided that
grant attaches to the Northern Pacific
from near Portland, Ore, to near Puget
Sound, a distance of about 40 miles.
This reverses a decision of Commissioner
Sparks.
THE board appointed by Secretary
Whitney to report upon the pneumatic
gun carriages and other devices has rec
commended that the pneumatic system be
applied to the monitor Terror, and that
the Government purchase one of the gun
carriages if necessary
THERE was received at the Treasury
Department on the Both novel COM
munication from a German capitalist in
Berlin. He states that he has in his pos
session large number of bonds issued by
the Confederate States of America, and
after much persu asion by his friends he
has concluded to offer $1,000 worth of
them for redemption.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
has submitted to the Secretary of the In
terror it's estimates for the next fiscal
year. They are as follows: Salaries of
commissioners, $37, 600; salary of secre-
tary, So, 500; all other necessary expenses,
S159, 900; total, $780, The present ap-
preparation is 100000.
EIGHTEEN officers and forty-one non
commissioned officers in the Swedish
army arrived in New York on the 30th on
the Thingvalla Line steamship Hecla to
attend the international drill in Chicago.
On their return to New York from Chi
cago a dinner will be given in their honor.
The veteran firemen of New York were
in Cleveland, O., on the 30th. They were
met by delegation of old-time firemen,
and in the afternoon the visitors and
others gave parade through the principal
streets. The New Workers held a reception
and concert at night.
THAToR SAHIB, of Morva, an Indian
prince, who has been looking over the
United States and Canada, arrived in
Cleveland on the 30th. He visited Gar
fields tomb and the rolling mills in the iron
ward and then left for Saratoga. He
travels in the late W. II. Vanderbilt's pri-
vate car.
THE Farmers Bank at Newcastle, Del,
was entered at an early hour on the morn
ing of the Both by masked robbers. Their
movements awoke the cashier, who seized
his pistol and fired, wounding one of the
intruders. His companions picked up the
fallen man and quickly carried him out
the front door, making their escape.
MRS. F. KINsCH eloped from Pittsburg,
Kas., several days ago with Owen Dob
bins, stonemason. She is thirty eight
years of age and the mother of six chill
dren. Dobbins has been boarding at her
house. Mr.. Kinsch located the runaway
couple in Kansas City on the Both, and
caused their arrest. They were put in the
county Jail.
THE Tombstone coach, belonging to the
"Mexican Joe' (Joe Shelley of Texas)
combination, while parading at gallop.
ing pace through the streets of Liverpool,
England, on the Both, capsized and the
members of the band were scattered upon
the stone pavements in all directions.
Four were so badly injured that they had
to be taken to the hospital. The b and in
struments were all smashed.